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07/11/1998 Third Eye Blind, Our Lady Peace, Eve6 (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)

By Woopop | July 11, 1998 11:59 pm

Me and katie get to the park about 12:30, wait around by the front gate for about 10-15 minutes, and then we see Devon, Niki, Beth, and Devon’s brother Ethan walking towards us… anyway, we do the whole rides thing, then get the bright idea to go over to the ampitheatre to see if soundchecks and whatnot is going on. We all started over to the ampitheatre section (having to leave the amusement park) and walking along the fence, seeing if there was any way we could see the special “meeting” session the local radio station had with OLP… while we were looking in the fence’s direction, Duncan walked right past us! We did the usual, “is that him? no, YEAH!” and then followed the small crowd of radio winners to try and get in, to no avail…. so we rip down a banner that the radio station put up, make a sign saying “clumsy congressors over the fence!!!” and chucked it over…. also to no avail! Getting the bright idea that since we’re gonna be so close, we take down more radio banners and make two signs… one saying “The Clumsy Congress loves OLP” which we all signed (and put an (emtee) on there too!), and the other saying “Clumsy Congress Right Here!” with arrows pointing to us… thinking we were going to hold them… we’ll see… we get back in the park and Devon gets the idea to get a beach ball or something to sign and throw up on the stage… her brother finds a guitar instead! Devon buys it, we all sign it (again, with all our screen names on it too!) and on the neck we wrote, again, “The Clumsy Congress loves you!” This will ultimately get chucked up on stage… hopefully… fast-forward to the opening band, Eve6… decent, but that’s not why I’m writing! Now the fun begins… we park ourselves right by the barrier, and then we get the bright idea to tape the banners to the barrier! (Mike could definately see them where we were…) I finally get to meet Adam too (man you did skip out on us!!! we were wondering where you went off to so fast!) so that done, (oh yeah, we were all displaying the CC on our hands too!) OLP comes out… Devon and Niki waved to Mike beforehand, so when he comes out, he looks at the banners, saw the (emtee) on it, and since we’re all displaying our CC’s… mike smiles and waves to devon and niki, and then a little further down, me and katie! got a thumbs up and everything! Then niki with her perfect aim, gets the blow-up guitar on the stage, RIGHT by mike! he looks down at it (miraclously with our writing face UP!) and once again acknowledges us! Then the roadie puts it in mikes guitar stand! Later on, mike actually picked it up and pretended to play it! (score one for the CC!)… so we got seen by mike, I know I got eye contact from duncan and jeremy too… and even raine for a split second! during Starseed, raine jumps off the stage comes right up to the barrier and starts slapping hands… first of which was mine! at this point katie (who also got her hand touched!) snaps a picture like 2 inches from raines face! mike also “posed” for pictures for katie and niki…. he was hamming it up! The setlist was: automatic flowers, superman’s dead, naveed, car crash, let you down, hello oskar, 4am, clumsy, starseed, and eternal life (a Jeff Buckley cover). We watched 3eb (yawn)… not impressed personally… then after saying goodbye to devon, ethan, beth and niki me and katie hung around to try and catch OLP’s tour bus… we get booted by the security guard (he was a dick, tried telling us they left, I told him I saw the bus still there… tries to tell me it’s stage crew, I tell him I’ve seen their bus before and that’t it! he gets pissed and boots us), me and katie wait in the car for 5 minutes, out comes the bus! we follow it, hoping it stops at the rest stop.. it doens’t… we follow it on the thruway, but sadly it goes east to the next gig in Syracuse, we had to go west to get back home! ah well… needless to say, we had a blast.

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